The Director in the Oper

Authors

  • Hovhannes Sergey Hovhannisyan Yerevan State Komitas Conservatory

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.58580/18290019-2024.1-2-111

Keywords:

stage design, director, compositional art, stage, global directing practices

Abstract

Opera director, Docent at Yerevan State Conservatory after Komitas Hovhannes Sergey Hovhannisyan. - "The Director in the Opera".This article is one of the five parts in a broader series of studies, including "The Opera Theatre", "The Opera Director", the already published "The Opera Conductor", "The Opera Theatre Designer," as well as a forthcoming article about the opera singer. The present piece, titled "The Director in the Opera", continues that series. It is a compelling, creative concept by an author with years of experience, an exceptional manifestation of musicological thought. The article discusses works that have been created as milestones in the global syntheticgenre of opera, highlighting how composers' visions have been brought to life through the interpretations andrealization of opera directors. It also presents innovative directorial solutions to traditional productions,

Author Biography

Hovhannes Sergey Hovhannisyan, Yerevan State Komitas Conservatory

(b. December 7, 1949). Graduated from the Orchestral Department at the YSC, majoring in cello (class of Prof. Levon Grigoryan), and the Faculty of Theater Directing at the Yerevan Institute of Theatre and Arts (curator Marat Marinosyan). He has been teaching at the Opera Department at the YSC (since 1989 - lecturer, since 2001 - docent). Since 199,4, he was a professor at the YSC. From 2005 to 2018he was the Head of the Opera Department. Since 198,2, he has been working as an Assistant Director at the YSC OperaStudio, and since 1986 as a Director. Hovhannisyan has staged over twenty productions of Western European, Russian, and Armenian operas in Armenia, Artsakh, and the USA.

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Published

2024-08-09

How to Cite

Sergey Hovhannisyan Հ. (2024). The Director in the Oper. Musical Armenia, (66-67), 111–116. https://doi.org/10.58580/18290019-2024.1-2-111

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